Oven-door rest



Feb. 19, 1929. 1,702,511

G. S. MORLEY ovEN DOOR REST Filed Oct. 24, 1927 By W Aria/iwi Patented Feb. 19, 1929.

UNTED STATES PATENT Feier..

GUIIFORD S. MORLEY, OF UNIVERSITY CITY, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO :MAJESTIC MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF ST.

MISSOURI.

LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION OF OVEN-noon REST.

Application led October 24, 1927. V Serial No. 228,111.

This invention relates to braces, or rests, and illustrated herein as embodied in a rest of a type suitable for use inv connect-ion with hinged doors, such, for example, as the oven doors of ranges, and the like.

lt is customary to mount oven doors for free pivotal movement about a horizontally extending axis and to provide rests, or other suitable means, for limiting the downward movement of the door` when it is opened. lleretofore the rests have been securely fastened to the front of the stove in such a manner that they cannot be displaced either accidentally, or intentionallyl without the use of tools, and, while they perform their intended function satisfactorily when so secured, it is evident that it would be extremely dii'iicult to clean the rests properly while they are attached to the stove, or to clean the port-ions of the stove located in the rear of the rests.

W ith the foregoing considerations invview the present invention has for an important object thereof the provision of improved door rests which may be easily and quickly removed from a stove to which they are attached. By means of such a provision the rests and the portions of the stove located in the rear of the rests may `be cleaned readily and eilioiently. As shown in the illustrative embodiment of the invention each of the rests is provided with an enlarged head adapted to lit slidingly within a groove formed along one side of the oven door, and with an arm having a perforation therein for receiving a hook-shaped saddle finger secured to the stove beneath the oven door. ln removing the rests, they may conveniently be raised to slide the enlarged headsalong the slot-s formed in the door, and to move the perforated arms out of engagement with the saddle fingers. WVhen the lower-ends are thus lifted free of the saddle lingers, the rests may be rotated to move the enlarged heads lengthwise within the grooves, from which position they may be readily extracted. Vihen the rests have, in this manner, been removed from the stove, they may be cleaned and finally replaced with the same ease and facility encountered in removing them.

@ther features and objects'of the invention will become apparent from a reading of the following specification in the light of the accompanving drawings, in which V- Fig. lis a view in front elevation showing a stove provided with the novel rests;

Fig. 2 is fragmentary view in side ele vation of the device shown in 1; and,

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary View in front elevationof the device shown in 1, illustrating diagrammatically the manner in which the rests may be removed from the stove.

' As shown in the dra-wings, the reference numeral 10 indicates the side walls, or framework, of a stove within which there is formed an oven. An oven door 12 for permitting access to the interior of the oven is pivoted at 14; for swinging movement about a horizontally extending axis from a closedv position to an open position, shown in Fig. 2.

The stove is provided with rests for limiting the movement of the oven door, and to support the door when it occupiesl an open position. As illustrated these rests, indicated at 16, are located at opposite edges of the door 12, and each of the rests is 1l rovided with a neck portion 18 terminating in an enT larged head, or projection, 2O and with a lower, inwardly extending arm 24 formed therein. The ears or projections 2O of the rests 16 are adapted to slide in grooves 26 formed in the oven door, and the lower in Wardly extending arms 22 areadapted to be seated within saddle members 28 secured to the frame of the stove below the door. Each saddle member 28 is provided with an upwardly extending linger 30 which is adapted to pass through the opening 24 formed in the arm 22 of the rest. l

From an inspection of Fig. 2 it will be seen that as the door moves from a closed to an open position the lower extremities of the rests pivot about the saddle 28 and the upper portions of the rests slide within the grooves 26 until they come in Contact with the wall at the end of the groove, thereby preventing further movement of the door in a downward direction and serving as a brace for the door as long as it remains open.

rilhe rests are mounted in such a manner that they may be readily removed from the stove in connection with which they are used,

and the manner in which the rests may be removed is clearly illustrated in Fig. 8. As there shown, the rests may be grasped manually and raised until the lower end, or the arm 22, is moved tree and clear of the saddle 28 and finger 30, and thereafter the rests may be rotated through the position B, indicated in dotted lines, into the position A, also indicated in dotted lines. l/Vith the rests positioned as shown at A, it is obvious that the projection 20 is tree to be extracted from the groove 26, and when such an extraction is ett'ected it is apparent that the complete removal of the rest is obtained. ln ai'iiXing the rest to a stove the procedure just outlined is reversed, the projection 20 being inserted into the groove, the rest rotated and finally dropped down into locking engagement with the iinger 30 ot the saddle 28.

Having thus described my invention, what l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. In a device of the character described, a hinged door provided with an elongated opening having a wall in which a slot is formed, said slot being of less width than said elongated opening, a rest to limit downward movement of said hinged door, a portion of said rest at one end thereof being extended through said slot and disposed within said elongated opening, said port-ion of said rest within` said elongated opening being incapable of passing through said slot when said rest is in its normal position, and said rest being movable to bring said portion to a position where it will pass through said slot to disengage said rest from said hinged door, and a saddle mounted in a iXed position below the hinged door and adapted to removably support said rest.

2. In a device. ot the character described, a hinged door provided with an elongated opening having a wall in which a slot is formed, said slot being of less width than sai-d elongated opening, a rest to limit the downward movement of said hinged door, a portion of said rest at one end thereof being extended through said slot and disposed within said elongated opening with portions thereof overlapping edges ot' said slot, said end portion ot said rest being loosely positioned within said elongated opening so that same may be turned therein to move said portion to a position where it may be passed through said slot to disengage said rest from said hinged door, and a saddle mounted in a lixedr position below the hinged door and adapted to removably support said rest.

3. ln a device ot the character described, hinged door provided with an elongated opening having a wall in which a slot is i'ormed, said slot being oi less width than said elongated opening, a rest to limit downward n'iovement ot said hinged door, said rest at one end thereoia being extended through said slot and having a portion disposed within said elongated opening which portion is otl greater length than the width ot said slot, said portion oit said rest within said elongated opening being ot substantially less length than the width of said elongated opening to permit turning ther-soft within said opening and being o' such transverse dimension to permit passage thereof through said slot whereby said rest may be turned to position at an approximate right angle to its normal position to disengage saine :trom the hinged door, and a saddle mount-ed below the hinged door and adapted to removably support said rest.

ln testimony that l claim the foregoing l hereunto aiiix my signature,

GUILFORD S. MORLEY. 

